Vienna in the biggest depression, directly after WW1. In a slum, Lila Leid (Tamara Geva), the wife of lawyer Leid (Alexander Murski) is murdered, Egon, secretary of one of Leid's clients is arrested. He was with her, and had her necklace, because he needed some money for his own stock exchange deals. The same deal brings poverty to ex-government official Rumfort (Jaro Fürth), his daughter Greta (Greta Garbo), who also has lost her job, tries to prostituting herself to get some money and food.
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January 27, 2011 Subject:
NO SOUND
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There is no soundtrack to the 512Kb MPEG4 file. Didn't try the DivX or Ogg Videos. However there is an additional posting of this movie w/ sound at: http://www.archive.org/details/TheJoylessStreet1926. -MetroBase